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Full name | Comune Monasterii Beate Maeri de Valle Lucis |
Other names | Abbey of Luce |
Order | Cistercian |
Established | 1192 |
Disestablished | 1602 |
Mother house | Dundrennan Abbey |
Diocese | Diocese of Galloway |
Controlled churches | Glenluce |
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Founder(s) | Lochlann, Lord of Galloway |
Glenluce Abbey,[1] near to Glenluce, Scotland, was a Cistercian monastery called also Abbey of Luce or Vallis Lucis [2] and founded around 1190 by Rolland or Lochlann, Lord of Galloway and Constable of Scotland. Following the Scottish Reformation in 1560, the abbey fell into disuse.